"Your Majesty, is it really necessary to recall all the previous batches of ironclad ships to the shipyard for major overhauls? Our ironclad ships are no worse than the goblins' ironclads, and they can win without renovating. ”

He had just negotiated a big deal with the Second Goblin Empire, and at this moment he suddenly heard the news that Luo Zhengdao was planning to send all the old models of ironclad ships back to the shipyard for magic reform, although he knew that this would have a positive effect on the overall combat effectiveness of the navy, Brando Scarlet was still stimulated and almost vomited blood on the spot. Boss, you're sent by goblins to play with me, right? What should I do if the ironclad ship, which is the core of the naval fleet, is withdrawn and returned to the furnace at once, and the goblins suddenly turn around? Commander Scarlet Yan hurriedly raised a questioning point, which was a reaction that was completely in line with common sense, but Luo Zhengdao's calm attitude made people feel painful no matter how they looked at it.

Rubbing his fingers back and forth on the edge of the teacup, Luo Zhengdao squinted his eyes like a cat lazily resting at noon, and said:

"The riveted structure is the product of poor technical conditions in the past, which is a big defect. You must know that this will significantly improve the performance of the battleship, and if these old ironclad ships are not eliminated, they will have to be rebuilt, and it is worth sweating a little more now than shedding blood on the battlefield in the future, right? ”

When the old world entered the era of industrialization, the modern military correspondingly formed a set of strict and standardized echelon building system and national defense mobilization system, and active duty soldiers, reserve soldiers, and adult men of appropriate military service age, relying on the national defense mobilization system, could continuously turn ordinary people into qualified soldiers and throw them on the battlefield to fight a war of attrition with the enemy.

In this regard, for example, during the Anti-Japanese War, when the soldiers on active duty on the front line were killed or wounded, they urgently called in the township to fill the vacancies, and those young people of school-age who were really inexperienced had to receive military training in China for several months, and then were assigned to front-line combat units. In contrast, the Huaxia army, which lacked this mechanism, was too rough, and directly stuffed an old Hanyang Cultivation into the hands of the farmers who were forcibly pulled in and sent them to the battlefield. As the well-trained elite troops on both sides were exhausted in the early stage of the war, whether the recruits who were replenished later were trained or not became a watershed in the strength of the army.

In such a huge contrast, it is not surprising that there is a black humorous joke about a Chinese division being beaten all the way by a foot basin chicken of a brigade. You can't expect a group of peasants who have just put down their hoes to become fearless warriors overnight, it has nothing to do with the courage of the soldiers, it is not scientific to ask for it!

Weapons and equipment are easy to obtain, and even if you can't build them yourself, you can always spend money to buy them, and if you can't buy them, you can grab them from the enemy. Only those veterans and grass-roots officers with rich combat experience are the strong confidence of an army, and if others are willing to provide you with an army, you must dare to use it.

Sinking an ironclad ship is already on the right path to the road to the local tyrant, Luo Zhengdao doesn't necessarily have to be so distressed, with the current industrial production capacity of the Bright Kingdom, it will be replenished in a year at most. The loss of those excellent sailors and gunners, as well as naval officers with many years of experience in seafaring operations, must have caused him a pain in the liver, and the cost of losing these men was much greater than the sinking of a few ships, and the consequences were far more severe. In this case, it is better to make a choice between returning the inferior goods to the furnace as soon as possible, paying an economic price and short-term risk exposure, and things are not as difficult to decide as outsiders imagine.

Generally speaking, Luo Zhengdao is satisfied with the speed and direction of future development, what he needs most is time, as long as the Aragami curses and doesn't kill him too early, it is only a matter of time before the black technology crushes the natives of the new world, and Luo Zhengdao has never wavered in this regard.

His arms couldn't twist his thighs, and Brando Scarlet had no better way in front of Luo Zhengdao, who was bent on going his own way, and on the premise that persuasion failed, he could only persuade him to accept the plan of batch transformation. In fact, Commander Scarlet forgot that the number of large docks in Qiongzhou was not enough to cram all the old ironclad ships into it, which can only be said to be a false alarm

It was another breezy morning, Luo Zhengdao had just finished breakfast, and with the assistance of the attendants, he put on the complicated and cumbersome king's robes, put on the crown, and tidied up his appearance in the mirror. A herald entered the attendant's room through the side door of the palace, and a few minutes later, this herald came to Luo Zhengdao along with several attendants.

Seeing this scene, Luo Zhengdao of course guessed that something was happening, he looked at a few people suspiciously, and said:

"What's wrong? What happened? ”

"Your Majesty, the hull part of the Titan was completed late last night, and it is ready for launching and outfitting."

There are still many traces of the era of sail warships in the early design of ironclads, which are the product of compromises with technical conditions, most notably the all-access lower gun deck and the three masts located on the upper deck.

After a long period of technology accumulation and running-in, by the time the Titan started, this giant ship was already a fully heavy gun battleship designed with reference to the concept of the Old World dreadnought.

In addition to auxiliary firepower such as secondary guns and anti-aircraft guns on the upper deck, the Titan's main armament is a four-front, three-rear, seven-barreled turret with a 160-pounder gun, and hydraulically assisted reloading and power steering. Judging from the visual effect alone, the Titan is not much different from the classic battleships of the Old World from World War I to World War II, with a huge chimney in the middle of the hull. Propellers driven by large steam engines replaced sail power, and disposable rocket engines were retained as a backup for tactical options.

Luo Zhengdao, who rushed to the shipyard to preside over the launching ceremony, and his entourage looked up at the huge hull full of power in the dock, this giant whale-like behemoth made the audience can't help but hold their breath and stare at the steel giant that shines with metallic luster in the sunlight for a long time.

"How long does it take to complete the outfit?"

Before the crossing, he didn't have the opportunity to admire a battleship at such a close distance, the few remaining battleships in the old world were all abroad, although Luo Zhengdao was not a poor person, he was not the kind of person who liked to travel around, and he could only learn about these large weapons that once dominated the earth's oceans through videos and pictures.

Hearing the king's question, the head of the works carefully calculated and replied:

"If it takes six to eight months, plus three to six months of sea testing, you can take this giant ship to teach the green skin a lesson in a year at the earliest."

Knowing the difficulties of naval construction, Luo Zhengdao did not have the rough idea of rushing to achieve results, and said with a smile:

"Hehehehe, don't be in a hurry to be happy, there are too many new technologies used on the Titan, and the service process will not be so smooth."

After a circle around the Titan, Luo Zhengdao turned his head and said to the person in charge of the project:

"I'll walk around, you don't have to accompany me, go back to work!"

"Your Majesty, how can this be!"

Hearing this, Luo Zhengdao smiled ambiguously and said:

"The most important thing is to build the ship well, and everything else can be in the back row."

In the old world, I saw a lot of formalism and face engineering, Luo Zhengdao really hated these things, but the bureaucratic system has its own set of operating rules, not to mention the non-deception and concealment, whitewashing the peace and catering to the will of the people is a compulsory course, people who don't understand this set of methods will not survive. All bureaucrats are doing this, you can't replace them all, and it doesn't necessarily get much better if someone else does the work, the world is as black as a crow! Therefore, no matter how much Luo Zhengdao doesn't like these old-fashioned dramas, he can't overthrow the entire civil service system alone, he can only hold back, Nima, this is a proper system problem.

With no irrelevant idlers beside him, Zola Hegel, who came with him, said excitedly and unabashedly:

"With the Titan, the sea of stars is ours."

Luo Zhengdao, who was laughing, was not so happy that he got carried away, he stopped laughing, he shook his head and retorted:

"Just like the ironclads, we have the Titan, and the goblins can be imitated, they are not short of money or resources, and we must send their best naval soldiers and officers to the Grim Reaper before the Greenskins react."

The Second Goblin Empire, which has always valued the movements of Will Needham's old enemy and regarded him as a thorn in his side, has never relaxed its infiltration of the Kingdom of Light for a moment. Personnel interviews, screening, and quarantine measures have kept most of the spies in isolated circles, and the dozens of top-secret research projects alone sound unclear by name, and the powerful weapons that go dark to the end can distract the few spies who are lucky enough not to be discovered.

In the final analysis, the actual effect of getting too much information is the same as getting too little information, if the other party feels that everything is possible, it is definitely not Li Ning, but a complete dizziness.

Mixed in with the floating battleship and other similar and dazzling categories of decisive battle weapons, the Titan is the closest to the practical project, but the exhausted goblin also wants to distinguish reality from fantasy with a lot of fantasy and contradictory market rumors in the description.

The so-called intoxicating and charming eyes, this is the effect that Luo Zhengdao hopes to achieve, not to hide from the opponent for a lifetime, and it is enough to keep the core secrets before a decisive battle begins.

If it is said that the human army with the mechanized corps has gained the ability to compete head-on with the goblin army, and uses the quality advantage of weapons and equipment to offset the double advantage of the opponent's number and soldiers, then from the launch of the ironclad ships one after another, Luo Zhengdao is basically holding the goblin nose, and a set of combination punches makes the opponent lose his temper. To this day, it is said that in a comparable number of encounters, the goblin navy loses more and wins less, even when the number of warships is far more than the human side, if you want to provoke the war goblins, you have to think twice, and if they don't make a good fuss, they will dig a pit and bury themselves, as a new navy under the command of the empire with a strong army, the goblin fleet is really sad to mention.